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THE PUBLIC FORUM
"AWAKEN. Shakespeare speaks
of a city of kites and crows, but it is
nothing to a city...of sleepers and
dreamers. ""
Some of the people sleep all the
time, all of the people sleep some of
the time, hut all the people do not
sleep all the time.
To those awake it will be noted
that Judge Orrin N. Carter has a cer
tain judicial record, particularly in
regard to street car affairs, and also
it will be noted that he has but one
opponent for the position of judge,
namely Frank L. Wood. The voters
generally, and street car men in par
ticular, should therefore be wide
awake on election, day, June 7, and
cast a vote in the right place. Ar
thur W. Gladwin, 2348 W. Monroe St
daughters from insult and worse.
Being a citizen and wishing for Uie
welfare of all other citizens and their
wives and daughters, as well as my
own, I would like to see Chicago's re
tormers at least subdued, if not
chased out of Chicago entirely. Wm.
Reid, 3530 Armitage Av.
CRIME MOTIVES. I have fol
lowed the Coppersmith murder case
lrom the start up to the present time
and would like to vent my feelings
on such cases and of cases where
young girls are assaulted, and many
times children. In my opinion, the
Coppersmith case can be laid at the
door of the reformers, who were the
cause of Chicago's redlight district
being closed. I think it is a terrible
thing for a city like ours to be turned
over to brutes such as the murderer
of poor Mrs. Coppersmith and her in
nocent baby. r
Would-be reformers are nothing
but cheap grafters and notoriety
seekers who are doing more harm
than good with thir so-called reform.
Send these reformers over to Europe
to reform some of the warring rulers
who really need reform and force
them 'to let our city alone.
Some yeaTs back it was terrible to
hear of a case of rape or of a woman
being attacked, but since our great
reformers have gotten so much to
Bay it is almost an every-day occur
rence. It is time for Chicago's citi
"ns to wake up and do something to
' y to save our mothers, wives and
THE PHONE CASE. In the case
"of the Automatic phone company, big
business is greatly concerned lest the
people of Chicago compel some of
its cohorts to live up to their con
tracts. The proposition is a simple one.
The city offers a franchise under cer
tain conditions and the offer is ac
cepted. Bonds are issued and sold
with the above proposition as a ba
sis. If either party to a contract fails
to perform his part of it, the other
party has a perfectly legal right to
withdraw or forfeit
As to the Automatic bonds being
in the hands of innocent holders, all
buyers must have, or should have,
informed themselves of the legality of
the foundation of these bonds. But
are these bonds held by the first buy
ers or are they held by subsequent
purchasers, who bought them at a
greatly reduced cost speculators
who are taking a gambler's chance?
Does big business want the people
to pay the price that these bonds
would bring if the venture had been
a success, in order that these specu
lative buyers may get one hundred
cents on the dollar? Surely they do
not propose that this expected value
shall be returned to the original pur
chasers? Did big business come to the as
sistance of the innocent holders of
various certificates 'of indebtedness
when the surface lines went through .
their numerous acrobatic juggleries
in frenzied financing? No, they did
not Yet thousands of innocent hold
ers were depriyed of their securities.
The people have a right to the en
forcement of thir contracts. This
cry of "innocent holders" and "inno-
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